Unusual Complication of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia After Mitral Valve Surgery: Spontaneous Rupture of Spleen

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1172-1174

  Mitchell, Christina ^a   Riley, Catherine A ^a   Vahid, Bobbak ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ARGATROBAN; HEPARIN; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG FATALITY; EVALUATION; FIBRIN CLOT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847295171     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.08.047     Document Type: Article

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